Il l'endosque et l'emparouille...

English translation: he "endoscates" and "emparels" it...

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Explanation:The Web site I've cited below gives a good analysis of Michaux's vocabulary in your quote. In short, this will be like translating "The Jabberwocky" into another language.

One geeky approach would be to "pretend" that these words really came from Latin, and then imagine they had been borrowed into English during the Norman period. For instance, endosquer implies a Latin form "indoscare," which implies an English form "indoscate." Emparouiller > inparolere > emparel. Ouillais > ocillasci > ocelascs.

That doesn't necessarily result in a very artful solution, but perhaps you can play with such ideas and come up with "pretend" English words whose sounds evoke similar connoations as the French words do in French.

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Explanation:The Web site I've cited below gives a good analysis of Michaux's vocabulary in your quote. In short, this will be like translating "The Jabberwocky" into another language.

One geeky approach would be to "pretend" that these words really came from Latin, and then imagine they had been borrowed into English during the Norman period. For instance, endosquer implies a Latin form "indoscare," which implies an English form "indoscate." Emparouiller > inparolere > emparel. Ouillais > ocillasci > ocelascs.

That doesn't necessarily result in a very artful solution, but perhaps you can play with such ideas and come up with "pretend" English words whose sounds evoke similar connoations as the French words do in French.